Thursday, 3 July 2014

Nigerian Bisi Alimi Named Among Most Influential Gay Persons in the World

Nigerian LGBT activist, Bisi Alimi has been named among the top 100
most influential gay persons in the world, according to a newly
published list of 2014′s leading LGBT figures worldwide. Bisi was
listed for being the first Nigerian to come out as gay on national TV
and he's sitting on the #77 spot.
Published by The Guardian
on the weekend that Gay Pride marches were taking place across the
globe, the title claimed its World Pride Power List came ‘at a time
where homosexuality remains illegal in 80 countries’. Adding that: “The
list is a chance to celebrate what has been, and is being, done to
promote equality.”

Nigerian
LGBT activist, Bisi Alimi has been named among the top 100 most
influential gay persons in the world, according to a newly published
list of 2014′s leading LGBT figures worldwide. Bisi was listed for being the
first Nigerian to come out as gay on national TV and he's sitting on the #77 spot.
Published by The Guardian on the
weekend that Gay Pride marches were taking place across the globe, the title
claimed its World Pride Power List came ‘at a time where homosexuality remains
illegal in 80 countries’. Adding that: “The list is a chance to celebrate what
has been, and is being, done to promote equality.”